Recommendations A story with a genuinely evil protagonist.

Santaisblue

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I'm looking for a story with an evil MC, not one where everyone thinks they're evil but the worst thing they do is kill other evil people; I'm looking for one where they are absolutely vile.
 
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Daitengu

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IMO that's most CN authored cultivator novels. I've read a dozen and all the protagonists lie, cheat, steal, murder, caused the extinction of plants and animals by harvesting everything so others can't. Some have wiped out whole sects(including kids), and one even genocided all Buddhists in his universe. The destruction of whole worlds and planes of existence is common as well.

It's why they're on my blacklist now. It's SO boring and I find it to be tag fraud because none of the authors label their protags as villains on novelupdates.
 

JayMark

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IMO that's most CN authored cultivator novels. I've read a dozen and all the protagonists lie, cheat, steal, murder, caused the extinction of plants and animals by harvesting everything so others can't. Some have wiped out whole sects(including kids), and one even genocided all Buddhists in his universe. The destruction of whole worlds and planes of existence is common as well.

It's why they're on my blacklist now. It's SO boring and I find it to be tag fraud because none of the authors label their protags as villains on novelupdates.
Amateurs

My protagonist dog ears books. She also puts milk cartons back in the fridge with half a sip left in the container.
 

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My protagonist dog ears books. She also puts milk cartons back in the fridge with half a sip left in the container.
Woah! Woah! Hold up. That should be in spoiler tags or something. It’s a little too intense to just have it hanging out like that. I don’t know if my heart can take such a graphic description of heinous villainy.
 

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IMO that's most CN authored cultivator novels. I've read a dozen and all the protagonists lie, cheat, steal, murder, caused the extinction of plants and animals by harvesting everything so others can't. Some have wiped out whole sects(including kids), and one even genocided all Buddhists in his universe. The destruction of whole worlds and planes of existence is common as well.

It's why they're on my blacklist now. It's SO boring and I find it to be tag fraud because none of the authors label their protags as villains on novelupdates.
It got so bad that the new trend is shitting on said murderhobo protags if they got isekai'd into xianxiaslopland.
 

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IMO that's most CN authored cultivator novels. I've read a dozen and all the protagonists lie, cheat, steal, murder, caused the extinction of plants and animals by harvesting everything so others can't. Some have wiped out whole sects(including kids), and one even genocided all Buddhists in his universe. The destruction of whole worlds and planes of existence is common as well.

It's why they're on my blacklist now. It's SO boring and I find it to be tag fraud because none of the authors label their protags as villains on novelupdates.
That’s why I made my own cultivation story. :blob_sir:
 

PierreAmet

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I'm looking for a story with an evil MC, not one where everyone thinks they're evil but the worst thing they do is kill other evil people; I'm looking for one where they are absolutely vile.
Then this one will make you grib

 

blackcrowcrowd

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Reverend Insanity.
Bro literally cooks two children (iirc they're children) ALIVE in a pot and kicks them back in when they try to run. And then iirc he made a bear eat a little girl ALIVE, yeah alive thats crazy bro.
However, I heard that the good part of this story isn't about him being evil, but his evilness is pretty fucked up
 

Nekyo

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Hello, I want to hear your thoughts about what you would think of this setup on my story.

One of my protagonist is not evil in the sense of he does things out of malice but he was cursed with eternal hunger for human flesh and has killed and devoured thousands of people throughout the centuries but now his curse was lifted (or rather he was exiled into a human body) and he's not sorry for the things he has done. As he now navigates a "normal" human life.

Voidlight: As the heroine there is no way I'd ever accept a demon. Not even in another world! Right!?
 
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